The complainant requested information related to the deployment of officers of the public authority at the FIFA 2006 World Cup in Germany. The public authority advised that it was exempt from its duty to provide it to him with some of the information by virtue of section 40 of the Act (Personal data). It disclosed other information in transcribed form. The public authority also maintained that it did not hold certain information within the scope of the complainant’s request. The Commissioner is satisfied that on the balance of probabilities, the public authority does not hold certain information which the complainant believes is held. However, the Commissioner requires the public authority to disclose that information which is within the scope of the request, which remains withheld and which is not exempt by virtue of section 40. The Commissioner has also found that the public authority contravened a number of procedural provisions of the Act. The complainant also expressed a further interest in the state of the document containing information which he had already received in transcribed form. The Act enables access to information and not to documents. Given that the complainant has already received the information in full, the Commissioner does not require the public authority to supply him with a copy of the document so that he can examine its state.
Section of Act/EIR and Finding: FOI 1 – Complaint Partly Upheld, FOI 10 – Complaint Upheld, FOI 40 – Complaint Partly Upheld
Citations:
[2010] UKICO FS50257735
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
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Updated: 09 July 2022; Ref: scu.531803